dorsetladette's latest activity

Agree. From more recent comments @Jasmine2023 it sounds like you have bought a 'just backed' pony rather than one that is 'ridden...

Come on people show some positivity! This can be fixed with time and effort. Not everyone was born in the saddle.

A neck strap can be fashioned out of a stirrup leather. The trick is to sit it where your hands will sit when you are holding the reins...

Yes I would be interested in a sharer but not sure where to look. Ozzy, yes that's me. He was a right handful lol. Thankfully now in...

Do you have a trusted instructor, who knows you well, who wasn't involved in recommending you buy him. A couple of £50 lessons to...

And just a kindly addendum. He doesn't need anyone doing sitting trot on him just at the moment.

If your instructor considers your horse too dangerous to get on- given they do know him and have seen the behaviour that does worry me...

Even if there isn't someone at your yard, there are professionals who will ride him for you to continue his education, they will come to...

This is what I have found. As I use a normal rope, they forget that they have the extra one and, if they do something silly, they can be...

Are you riding with a neck strap? Holding a neck strap may help you stay with the movement if he shoots forward. It maybe upsetting him...

I had a moose of a horse who would explode BE at the first canter. Sadly, he also knew where the canter would come in the test and was...

Sounds like a buzzy horse, very sensitive to any buzzy energy from you, who's go to is always the accelerator pedal. You probably need...

Is it that you cant stop him at all? In your shoes I'd be going HC and going to dressage only events and using whatever method makes him...

Ive noted a few stallions that progeny seem to do rather well, be interesting to see how they do in the future. They do have a section...

Thanks my one and only homebred. It's been one of my dreams to own and compete the mother, choose the stallion and ride the offspring...